The week in TV: Art Matters; Surviving the Post Office; The Decameron; Time Bandits – review
TV review
Art Matters With Melvyn Bragg review – a shallow, unenlightening waste of time and money
March 2024
The Garrick Club’s notable members – in pictures
The Garrick Club is likely to hold a vote this year on changing its rules to allow female members. A Guardian investigation into those who will help decide the issue reveals a host of people in public life among its members
September 2023
‘I’d been fired once; it didn’t hurt’: Melvyn Bragg on breakdowns, bust ups and 1,000 episodes of In Our Time
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: The Woman in the Wall; David Hockney: A Celebration; The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies; Starstruck – review
August 2023
Melvyn Bragg to step down from South Bank Show after 45 years
Broadcaster says ‘it’s about time’ after launching series in 1978
April 2023
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography
The best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in March 2023
March 2023
Books interview
Melvyn Bragg: ‘At 83, time goes round too quickly’
The broadcaster and writer on revisiting childhood for his nostalgic memoir, the genius of George Orwell, and his love of dancing
June 2022
This much I know
Melvyn Bragg: ‘My daughter conducted my marriage service’
The writer and broadcaster, 82, talks about his childhood, Dennis Potter, writing and why he didn’t think he was good enough for the House of Lords
May 2022
Observer book of the week
Back in the Day by Melvyn Bragg review – extraordinarily vivid and moving memoir
Bragg has created such a masterly evocation of his early life in Cumbria, you can almost smell the beer and cigarette smoke
January 2022
Don’t surrender BBC in face of political attacks, Melvyn Bragg urges
Broadcaster tells Radio Times that corporation has ‘earned our respect’ and calls for it to be protected
October 2021
The Audio Long Read
Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals – podcast
The long read
Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals
June 2021
BBC is worth ‘storming the Bastille’ to save, says Melvyn Bragg
Broadcaster speaks out against threats to corporation, saying it will never be reinvented if destroyed
October 2020
Baking won’t get me through a Covid winter but a bossy, breathless Melvyn Bragg just might
Grace Dent
As the colder, darker half of 2020 looms, I’m turning to my special happy place: the BBC’s In Our Time
June 2020
Tony Cash obituary
Maker of TV arts documentaries for The South Bank Show and series exploring art, poetry and classical music
November 2019
Books interview
Marie-Elsa Bragg: ‘There really is no shame to suffering’
The author and priest, daughter of broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, talks about her new memoir
July 2019
The Guardian view on the creative self: it needs more than 15 minutes
From the Observer archive
From the archive: When Melvyn Bragg met Lauren Bacall
May 2019
In brief: Love Without End; The Three Dimensions of Freedom; Facts and Fiction – reviews
Melvyn Bragg takes his cue from Heloise and Abelard, musician Billy Bragg reflects on freedom, and some joyful musings from biographer Michael Holroyd
